19120 - Counter on all pages at http://compwiz.dhs.org displays incorrectly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 8031

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Ari Pollak]

All the counters on compwiz.dhs.org are not displayed. instead, all it displays
is "img_counter.pl?img_counter.dat". This bug has been present since at least
M9, and still happens when I tried it on Milestone 11, build ID 1999111609.

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

This is an very bad XBM.  The site doesn't give a MIME type (x-xbitmap), nor any
alternate text (so the filename is used for alt text).  The site should fix
these, if possible.  I'm not sure why it is working in Nav at all, perhaps there
is some sort of fallback detection?

In either case, XBM is not yet supported in Moz.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8031 ***

Comment 2

[Ari Pollak]

Well, the counter works fine on every browser i've tried, even kfm. Can you give
me a hint as to how I should set it up to handle correctly?

Comment 3

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I know very little about web servers personally.  I'd say whatever web server
you're running is not recognising an xbm as such, hence the lack of a mime type.
 I guess web servers might detect based on extension, file examination, manual
specification or whatever.

You appear to have changed to using server-side insertion of the counter as
text.  You could just leave it as it was and insert the text in as alt text -
that way if the browser failed to load the image it would show as text instead.

Comment 4

[Ari Pollak]

I'd still like to know why Mozilla isn't rendering the graphics.. Mozilla
doesn't even display the author's demo page correctly, it just gives the same
thing as on my website.

Comment 5

[troy]

I don't know if Gecko even has support for XBM files. Cc'ing Pam who can say for
sure.

If we do, then the problem may be what matty indicated which is that the server
isn't sending a MIME type for the image. Either way if we can't display an image
we display the alternate text instead.

Comment 6

[Chris Petersen]

Marking as verified dup of 8031.

Comment 7

[pnunn]

XBM decoding was in 4.x and is now not part of the
current package. They really aren't used that frequently.

I still have the XBM code and had targeted it as fodder
for a demo of how to add a new image decoder. I have not
had time to do so.

Any volunteers?
-pn